Megan Robinson, Author at Public Seminar

Music

The Frivolous Mystique of Rosalía’s Lux

The critically acclaimed pop album, sung in 13 languages, uses classical compositions to its disadvantage

April 20, 2026 • by Megan Robinson

Rosalía released her fourth studio album, Lux, in November 2025. Inspired by “feminine mystique,” according to its press release, the album narrates the lives of several female mystics and saints. Rosalía worked with collaborators including Björk, Yves Tumor, and producer Noah Goldstein (from Kanye West’s Yeezus, another acclaimed God concept album), ...

Public Health

Death Rights

The risks of New York State’s new Medical Aid in Dying law

February 19, 2026 • by Megan Robinson

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Medical Aid in Dying Act (MAiD) into state law in early February, months after the legislation passed the state Senate in June 2025. The bill’s passing prompted an extended period of debate, advocacy, and amending, centered on whether mentally competent, terminally ill New ...

Interviews

Simon Critchley on the Most Important Philosophical Book of the Twentieth Century

“It is my conviction that genuine philosophy can be explained simply and clearly”

July 1, 2024 • by Simon Critchley and Megan Robinson

Heidegger’s working closely within the philosophical tradition; he thinks that we need to get closer to how the world actually shows up practically and how others enter into that world....

Simon Critchley on the Most Important Philosophical Book of the Twentieth Century

Film & Performing Arts

The Transformations of Katherine Dunham

The dance pioneer’s contributions to postmodern anthropology

June 11, 2024 • by Megan Robinson

The possibilities open to an anthropologist engaging with her fieldwork in a creative way is what drew me to the Dunham Technique in the first place....